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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO PYRRHA IN THE POCONOS, by RHEINHART KLEINER First Line: Sweet, you have gone for a season's vacationing Last Line: You are expected at home in a week! Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey | |||
Sweet, you have gone for a season's vacationing, Far from Manhattan's three million or so; New Street, the scene of my once frequent stationing -- Why, but to meet you? -- seems empty and slow. Dull is the vista of Wall Street and Trinity; Broadway is just a delusion and snare; Wanly I view each familiar vicinity, Knowing and grieving that you are not there. Dining alone in a haunt of the Villagers Here on West Fourth Street, I try to forget; Scant is the comfort from Pirates and pillagers; Ah, none at all, from a green cigarette! What has the playhouse of verve or variety? All that is thrilling and new has been shown; What were the brightest and best, but satiety, Seen without holding your hand in my own? Yet there is balm for my spirit in Gilead; Hope for the heart that is chastened and meek; Else were the tale of my sorrows an Iliad; You are expected at home in a week! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS BROOKLYN, MY BROOKLYN by RHEINHART KLEINER TO LALAGE (ON HER RESIGNATION AS FILE CLERK) by RHEINHART KLEINER |
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